1929 in animation


Events in 1929 in animation.

Events

March

March 17: Walt Disney gives the Mickey Mouse short Plane Crazy an official release, now as a sound cartoon. The short marks the debut of Clarabelle Cow.

June

June 28: In the Mickey Mouse cartoon The Plowboy, produced by Walt Disney, Horace Horsecollar makes his debut.

July

July 31: In the Mickey Mouse cartoon The Karnival Kid, Walt Disney voices Mickey for the first time.

August

August 22: Walt Disney's The Skeleton Dance, the first Silly Symphony, is released.

Specific date unknown

Films released

Births

January

January 20:

February

February 10: Jerry Goldsmith, American composer and conductor,.February 16: Olga James, American singer and actress,.February 17: Patricia Routledge, English actress,.February 22: James Hong, American actor.February 23: Queta Lavat, Mexican actress,.February 28: Frank Gehry, Canadian–American architect and designer,.

March

March 1: Maurice Kanbar, American Producer,.March 5: Paul Coker Jr., American illustrator, character designer and production designer,.March 10: Alice Hirson, American actress,.March 12: Billy Lee, American actor,.March 13: Peter Breck, American actor,.March 14: José Santa Cruz, Brazilian actor, comedian and voice actor,.March 31: Frank Braxton, American animator,.

April

April 1:

May

May 5: Ilene Woods, American actress and singer,.May 6: Polly Lou Livingston, American actress,.May 10: George Coe, American actor,.May 11: Margaret Kerry, American actress.May 23:

June

June 3: Brian Lewis, British illustrator, comics artist and animator,.June 4: Digby Wolfe, English actor,.June 5: Normand Hudon, Canadian animator and comics artist,.June 17: James Shigeta, Japanese-American actor,.June 25: Eric Carle, American author, designer and illustrator,.June 26: Milton Glaser, American graphic designer,.June 27: Donyo Donev, Bulgarian cartoonist, caricaturist, animator and comics artist,.June 29: Michio Mamiya, Japanese composer,.

July

July 1: Hal Sutherland, American painter, film director and animator,.July 3: Béatrice Picard, Canadian actress,.July 5: Katherine Helmond, American actress,.July 10: Jef Cassiers, Belgian actor, comedian, animator and film director,.July 11: Sandy Frank, American television producer, distributor, and marketer.July 13: René Laloux, French animator and film director,.July 17: Helene Stanley, American actress,.July 18: Dick Button, American figure skater and analyst,.July 23: Maya Buzinova, Russian animator,.July 30: Martin Strudler, American animator and background designer,.

August

August 13: Pat Harrington Jr., American actor,.August 21: Vance Gerry, American storyboard artist, concept artist, and character designer,.

September

September 2: Victor Spinetti, Welsh actor, author, poet and raconteur,.September 5: Bob Newhart, American actor and comedian,.September 21: Elsa Raven, American actress,.September 25: Pepe Soriano, Argentine actor,.

October

October 8: Manuel García Ferré, Argentine cartoonist and animator,.October 11: Michael Magee, Canadian actor, singer and author,.October 16: Edward Bleier, American television executive,.October 25: Robin Parkinson, English actor,.October 27:

November

November 1: Francisco Macián, Spanish animator, film director and producer,.November 6: June Squibb, American actress.November 15: Ed Asner, American actor and president of the Screen Actors Guild,.November 17: Goro Naya, Japanese voice actor,.November 21: Mike Reynolds, American television writer and voice actor,.November 23: Bruce Petty, Australian political cartoonist, sculptor and animated film director,.November 25: Pavao Štalter, Croatian animator, director, screenwriter, scenographer and artist,.November 29: Mike Kricfalusi, American voice actor and father of John Kricfalusi,.November 30:

December

December 1: David Doyle, American actor,.December 7: Boris Stepantsev, Russian film director, animator, and illustrator,.December 13: Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor,.December 21: Anita Gordon, American singer and actress,.December 24: David H. DePatie, American film and television producer,.''''

Specific date unknown

  • Frank Andrina, American animator and timing director,.
  • Esfandiar Ahmadieh, Iranian film director,.

Deaths

April

April 20: Charles Allan Gilbert, American animator, illustrator, and World War I-era camouflage artist,, dies at age 55.

May

May 2: Segundo de Chomón, Spanish film director, cinematographer, and screenwriter, dies at age 57.